Lock check pin



June 4, 1929. B Q v 1,716,111

LOCK CHECK PIN Filed March 2, 1928 Patented June 4, 1929.

UNITE STATS;

CLINTON o. BUTLER, or Pomona, CALIFORNIA.

Loon CHECK PIN.

Application filed March 2, 1928. Serial No. 258,597.

This invention aims to provide a simple but effective means wherebyarticles of laundry may be checked in such a way as to render confusionunlikely to occur, it being possible to make a wide variety ofcombinations out of a very few elements, and those elements being ot asimple sort.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and toenhance the utility of devices of that type to which the inventionappertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the 111- vention herein disclosed, may be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in perspective, a devlce constructed inaccordance with the invention Figure 2 is an elevation showing twochecking devices constructed in accordance with the invention andmounted on a panel or the like;

Figure 3 is a plan showing one of the check plates;

Figure 4: is a side elevation of the complete device depicted in Figure1;

Figures 5 and 6 are plans showing modifications; and

Fig. 7 is a plan showing the check plate used with the form depicted inFig. 6.

The device forming the subject matter of this application preferably ismade of metal and includes a support 1, in the form of a plate, havingopenings 2, adapted to receive screws 3 or other securing elements,whereby any desired number of supports 1 may be held on a panel 4 oranything else that is handy and adapted for the purpose in View. In eachsupport 1 are fixedly mounted any desired number of approximatelyparallel pins 5, there being two pins on each support 1 in theembodiment of the inventlon selected for illustration. The pins 5 may betapered at their ends, as shown at 6, so that the check plates 7(hereinafter described in detail) may the more readily be mounted uponthem. The pins 5 are supplied near to their free ends with laterallyprojecting wings 8 which are located at different angles with respect toa plane AB' passing through the axes of both of the pins 5. I

For each pair of pins 5 there is provided a check plate 7, the platebeing supplied with transversely spaced openings 9 adapted to receivethe pins 5 closely, the plate being equipped with slots 10 whichcommunicate with the openings 9, the slots 10 being so shaped as toreceive the wings 8 closely. Comparing the right-hand and left-handportions of Figure 2, it will be seen that the pins 5 may be set in thesupport 1 with the wings 8 in any desired angular relation with respectto the plane AB, and in this way,

In Figure 5 of the drawings, a modification of the invention has beenshown. The modification consists in this: that one of the wings, markedspecifically by the numeral 11, is not disposed radially of the pin, asis the wing 8 and the corresponding wings 8 of Figure 2.

In Figure 6 of the drawings, parts hereinup of angularly disposed parts,whereas the wings 8 11, 8*, and 8, have no angles in them. The checkplate used in connection with the form shown in Figure 6 is disclosed inFigure 7, and parts hereinbefore described have been designated bynumerals previously used, with the suifix c.

All of the check plates have reduced ends 14 provided with openings 15adapted to receive rings 16 or the like, connected to safety pins 17 orequivalent structures, the pins 17 being adapted to hold the articleswhich are to be classified and arranged.

Vhat is claimed is 1. In a laundry-checking device, a support, aplurality of transversely spaced approximately parallel cylindrical pinspro-' jecting from the support, laterally extended communicate with theopenings, the slots belng so shaped as to reeelve the WlIlgS closely.

2. In a laundry-checking device, a support, a plurality of transverselyspaced approximately parallel pins from the support, laterally extendedWings on the pins, the Wing on one pin being shaped differently from theWing on another 10 pin, the Wings being located in different proj ectingplaces, circumferentially of their respective pins, and a check havingtransversely spaced openings receiving the pins, the check beingprovided With slots Which communicate with the openings, the slots beingso shaped as to receive the Wings closely.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as xmy own, I have heretoaffixed my signature. V

CLINTON C. BUTLER.

